Reporter's Diary

Press, 12 February 1981, Page 2

Reporter's Diary

A ram do AN INNER CITY resident living • near Hagley Park was honoured last week by the unescorted arrival in his garage of a threey e a r-old Suffolk-cross ram. Mr R. E. Priest has been scratching his head about w'hat to do with his visitor ever since. Even after advertising on radio, nobody has claimed the sheep, and he has settled in to a diet of cabbage leaves and grass on Mr Priest’s vacant section next to his house. The ram is quiet and weir used to people. He has a brass eartag with 1977-73 on one side and "Me'adowbank" on the other. The ram had been sold two years ago, but it was not known to whom, a Meadowbank spokesman Fas said.

Pussyfoot-sore FONZI, a five-year-old tabby cat has padded 260 km home to; Orion Street, Rotorua, from Waihau Bay, north * of Cape Runaway, after giving a Christmas camping trip with his human

family the stiff whisker. After a 48-day journey, an average of more than skm a day, this' persevering puss was found, paw-sore, weary, and a little bit slimmer, just 100 metres from home by his owner Vanessa Robertson, aged seven. Rather put out with his adopted family, Fonzi is now making up for lost time at the food bowl. Antarctic tales

SIR Ranulph Fiennes, leader of the Transglobe expedition that recently crossed Antarctica, will give a public lecture about the trip in Christchurch on March 6. The venue is the Town Hall’s Limes Room at 8 p.m., and there will be an • admission charge. Sir Ranulph and the rest • of his team, Charles Burton and Oliver Shepard, are due to leave McMurdo Sound in the support ship Benjamin Bowring on February 16. It is not known yet whether Lady Fiennes will be at the lecture, which is being organised by the Canterbury', branch of the New.; Zealand Antarctic 7-

Society.. The Fiennes’ Jack Russell terrier, Bothie, which spent eight months with the group at Scott Base before the traverse, began, will be unable to attend, and- will have to remain on board ship at Lyttelton, because of quarrantine regulations. Hot dog! A SHORT number from the 1981 Health Conference being held in Christchurch: according to a speaker, one national food company sold 45,500 hamburgers each week from one outlet, while another company sold 120,000 fast-food meals a week from all its outlets. That amounts to a lot of tomato sauce. Word battle solved JARGON, be it legal or medical, is something we often have to do battle with. Dr Ross Faigray, medical superintendent-in-chief of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, made a refreshing' comment on this yesterday when he said that he had enjoyed reading a report on the Bishopdale Family Health Counselling Centre “because it. was in normal English and not in difficult jargon.” Perhaps other medical-social agencies will take note.